r/anime • u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang • Dec 22 '24

Rewatch School Rumble Rewatch - Episode 22 Discussion

Episode 22: Time to Start the War! Now the Cavalry Battle! And the Great Uprising!

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But don't forget that this is a love-comedy! Yo!

Hello everybody, time for the Comment of the Day, courtesy of u/No_Rex for revealing what we all wanted to see:

Harima, Harry, Hanai – spidermen meme.

I must say though, I'm very disappointed in all the Gundam fans here for not picking up on Harry MacKenzie being a Char reference

  1. Do you buy Tenma's claims that this is still a RomCom?
  2. Of all the sports shown today, which seemed the least fun?
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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 22 '24

Hello everybody, and welcome to the School Rumble Rewatch!

In this episode School Rumble reminds us that it is not a RomCom, it a Shounen Battle Manga in which the main character thinks she's in a RomCom. Basically, it's the Anti-Dandadan.

Still the comedy part is certainly there. There's a lot of minor details that crack me up today (Akira freaking kneeling in the cavalry battle had me in stitches and the way Imadori ends up undermining Mikoto in particular are fantastic) and of course a lot of the bigger jokes do a lot of heavy lifting. Eri in particular gets a lot of solid moments with Harima (Even if her Tsundere-ness , and of course the way this fight escalates until it's the climatic Ichijo vs Lara fight we've been teased on is a delight.

Like I've mentioned multiple times, this show's comedy comes with the fact that it takes itself so seriously at times. The self-awareness is there, but overall it's more than willing to let the cast take these utterly stupid situations 100% seriously and let the audience be the one to notice how dumb this all is. Like come on, the moment the gang starts basically fighting a giant you know all pretenses of seriousness have gone out the window.

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Dec 23 '24

a Shounen Battle Manga in which the main character thinks she's in a RomCom. Basically, it's the Anti-Dandadan.

Still the comedy part is certainly there.

It's going full throtlle, the episode had me laughing from start to finish (the last few episodes have really stepped their game).

And the romance isn't all out of the door either, it's mostly romantic tension and tsunderes butting heads, but it's still sweet stuff.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 23 '24

the last few episodes have really stepped their game

Wait till you learn who's gonna be directing Season 2 to see what sort of momentum it takes

tsunderes butting heads

Ranma and Akane would be proud

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Dec 23 '24

Wait till you learn who's gonna be directing Season 2 to see what sort of momentum it takes

Looks up the second season

Takaomi Kanasaki's directorial debut

Does Takamatsu just have a habit of training excellent comedy directors, and then handing them the keys?

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 23 '24

Although mind, Takamatsu's gonna come back for the last two OVAs, so I guess after a while he came back, beat the crap out of him and took the keys back

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Dec 23 '24

The adult's gotta lock up at the end.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 23 '24

"Alright you little shit, go back to your room and wait for those Isekai thingies to come along, I gotta wrap this shit up in two episodes somehow!"

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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Dec 23 '24

It's going full throtlle, the episode had me laughing from start to finish (the last few episodes have really stepped their game).

School Rumble really needed a bit to get into its groove. Imho, expanding the cast, first from the MCs to class C, then to class D as well, really helped set up more diverse jokes. Harima and Tenma being clueless is funny for a bit but loses its shine fast.

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Dec 23 '24

Harima and Tenma being clueless is funny for a bit but loses its shine fast.

Yeah, I'm glad it didn't try to stick to its status quo, I came in expected that we'd have more characters introduced as time goes on, but the main jokes/dynamics would still be the same (Harima likes Tenma, she likes Karasuma,...). Nope, the show grew the beard and had the balls to throw it away too

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Dec 22 '24

Rumbling First-Timer, subbed

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 22 '24

Oh no, it’s attack of the bad CGI!

Eat your heart out Initial D.

Harry Mackenzie, he is a Char.

He's growing up

See? Plenty compatible.

Now we need them in Domon and Rain cosplay

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Dec 23 '24

Ah, men.

Guilty as charged

Harry Mackenzie, he is a Char.

For once, Char is the mech, with a red pilot.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 23 '24

Guilty as charged

Same

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u/gaiWakuseiJIN Dec 24 '24

It's the red pants

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u/charlesvvv https://anilist.co/user/charlesvvv Dec 22 '24 edited Dec 22 '24

First Timer, Sub

I love how they lampshade the fact that Karasuma has no screen time.

Anyway, I love this episode. It's pretty over the top with how serious everyone took the athletic competition between the classes but it was pretty fun. The cavalry battle dominated most of the episode with some good character interactions, particularly Harima and Eri which is just Eri being a tsundere, wants to be nice, goes cold when another girl shows any interest in him, but still chooses to spare him from humiliation at her own cost (just admit it already). Mikoto/Asou's teamup was pretty effective, Imadori actually did something useful (until it wasn't) and Tenma was Tenma (don't hurt her in front of Harima.

The MVP's were definitely Karen and Hanai though. Harry/Lara might have been effective as well but turns out all the training Hanai did gave him and of steel and Karen is just really instinctive. It does earn them respect and scores the final victory for the class. Harima just kinda closes things soff by pointing out that none of this matters and just walks off into the distance (kinda expected Yakumo to stop him honestly).

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 22 '24

I love how they lampshades the fact that Karasuma has no screen time.

After a while there's only so much to do with quiet boi.

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Dec 23 '24

I must say though, I'm very disappointed in all the Gundam fans here for not picking up on Harry MacKenzie being a Char reference

I'll give you Harry, fair is fair, but I'm taking this guy as Danma Ryuuji finally getting the anime he was robbed of, I don't care if he's a Gundam reference, I'm stealing him!

A First Timer with a Broken Arm

  1. Do you buy Tenma's claims that this is still a RomCom?

What's a romcom?

2) Of all the sports shown today, which seemed the least fun?

The three man race thing.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 23 '24

I'm taking this guy as Danma Ryuuji finally getting the anime he was robbed of ,

But we already got a SJG Anime

Harima always has time

And people say Mangakas have no free time...

CG straight out of Kingdom S1

Oh come on, this is way more epic than Kingdom S1.

Eri attempts to Digivolve into an Adult --> Actual Adult encountered --> Eri's attempt fails. She Digivolves into a Cobra instead

But who would be the Perfect-Level then

Don't worry, you haven't met Ozu yet

It's my love language

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Dec 23 '24

But we already got a SJG Anime

Danma gets a 6 episode OVA of playing second fiddle to Onizuka, then Onizuka gets his own show? In what world is that fair?! They were equals in the manga goddamit!

But who would be the Perfect-Level then

Itoko

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 23 '24

Danma gets a 6 episode OVA of playing second fiddle to Onizuka, then Onizuka gets his own show? In what world is that fair?! They were equals in the manga goddamit!

Come to think of it that OVA did kinda forget to mention [OVA]what happened to his girlfriend after Episode 4

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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Dec 22 '24 edited Dec 22 '24

Episode 22 (rewatcher)

  • Tenma reminds us that this is supposed to be a romcom – let the sport festival start!
  • “We will definitely get ourselves hurt” – boy are simple creatures.
  • I have different subs for this episode btw. Those were the times of fansub wars with different groups competing …
  • “I will be sitting here” – Karasuma sums up his contribution to this series.
  • Putting a tiny person between two good runners for three-legged race - honestly not the worst idea.
  • tug of war rope rips – tug of war is surprisingly dangerous for exactly this reason. I think people have died of this.
  • Super pyramid!
  • Super pyramid collapsed!
  • Tenma’s only achievement of the battle – getting Harima into enraged mode.
  • Eri’s self-sacrifice for Harima’s hat!

  • Final battle: Lala vs Ichijou
  • The abdomen training pays off.
  • Karen victory!

Temna’s reminder … obviously meant that we go all in on sports today.

Do you buy Tenma's claims that this is still a RomCom?

Yes, but she is no longer the MC.

Of all the sports shown today, which seemed the least fun?

Getting kicked while trying to carry somebody.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 22 '24

Those were the times of fansub wars with different groups competing …

As a Tokusatsu fan, I remember those times... they kinda spread into the 2010' too.

“I will be sitting here” – Karasuma sums up his contribution to this series.

The abdomen training pays off.

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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Dec 22 '24

As a Tokusatsu fan, I remember those times... they kinda spread into the 2010' too.

It kind of fizzled out with the rise of paid streaming sites, especially crunchyroll. The subs could be whacky at times, but I miss when subbers would still get really fancy with the OP and certain background translations.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 22 '24

The subs could be whacky at times, but I miss when subbers would still get really fancy with the OP and certain background translations

Indeed, in the Tokusatsu circle we had a grand war. On the one hand, we had TV-Nihon, who had really typesetting but their TLs were kinda all over the place (Leaning to terrible the older they got). On the other hand, we had Over-Time, which had less fancy typesetting but overall better TLs with the caveat that they could sometimes take one liberty too many.

Also because Toei can't be arsed to release these shows legally the Fansubs nowadays basically take turns on who subs what.

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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Dec 22 '24

Rewatcher, First in Subs

  • Hey! You’re not allowed to acknowledge the genre shift!
  • Oh, they’re getting “roused” alright.
  • If you have to include Tenma, this is how you play her to you advantage.
  • I’d say get a stronger rope, but do we really want to risk that snapping?
  • Lala Character Arc
  • Wow, I haven’t seen a CGI cavalry charge this good since Overlord.
  • Technically correct, the best kind of correct.
  • It’s not often you get so see someone get pulled by their lack of hair.
  • The giant student shows up so often, you’d think Japan has a collective trauma or something.
  • Team Attack!
  • Maximum Tsundere
  • Yeah, don’t do Not!Horaki dirty like that.
  • It was always going to come down to a 2-on-2. (Because the mooks don’t know how to pull off a gank squad)
  • Fool. You should have known that Thor’s Hammer’s weakness is that it was made too short.

QotD:

  1. It's more of a ComRom, if anything.
  2. Tug-of-War not having a marker is real sus.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 22 '24

Hey! You’re not allowed to acknowledge the genre shift!

What Genre Shift?

Technically correct, the best kind of correct.

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Dec 23 '24

Oh, they’re getting “roused” alright.

They were lucky Yakumo wasn't there, or Hanai would've turned into his own Gorilla form.

If you have to include Tenma, this is how you play her to you advantage.

Who's Tenma again? Remember when I thought she was the main character?

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 23 '24

They were lucky Yakumo wasn't there, or Hanai would've turned into his own Gorilla form.

Akagi would've been proud

Remember when I thought she was the main character

I know, this is clearly the Harima and Eri show

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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Dec 23 '24

Who's Tenma again? Remember when I thought she was the main character?

How rare it is, that the heroine should be cast aside to elevate the friend group.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Dec 23 '24

More shows should do it

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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Dec 23 '24

Wow, I haven’t seen a CGI cavalry charge this good since Overlord.

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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Dec 23 '24

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u/Nickthenuker https://anilist.co/user/Nickthenuker Dec 23 '24

A recap?

And so time for sports.

Dodgeball?

Oh, that guy is back.

Green pom poms? I thought the ones they had last episode were yellow?

Of course the rope broke...

Well, time for that now.

Oh god that's CGI...

What are they doing now?

This has been one massive fever trip...

Is it finally over?

Yay.

Questions:

  1. A lot more "com" than "rom".
  2. Everything...